How often do warts recur?

In life, people who have suffered from genital warts know that genital warts are prone to recur during treatment, causing great physical and psychological harm to patients. The length of the recurrence period of genital warts varies from person to person, and different patients will have different time periods. Some will recur in 3 to 4 weeks, and some will never recur. If you want genital warts to never recur, you must do a good job of postoperative care to avoid the recurrence of genital warts.

Generally speaking, how long it takes for genital warts to recur after treatment depends on many factors. For example, the treatment methods used. Some patients will experience a relapse 2 weeks after the removal of condyloma acuminatum lesions, with a short relapse interval. In some cases, new warts will grow before the wound has healed after the warts have been removed. Some patients experience a slow relapse and long relapse interval after the removal of genital warts lesions, and some may even experience a longer relapse interval after 3 months.

Clinical practice shows that the recurrence time of genital warts can be 2 weeks, several months, several years, and even several decades in some individual reports. According to statistics of some recurrence cases at home and abroad, the recurrence interval of 85% of patients with genital warts is about 1 to 2 months.

Five factors that may easily lead to the recurrence of genital warts:

What are the main causes of recurrence of genital warts?

1. Sexual behavior is an important factor in the recurrence of genital warts. The more sexual partners a person has, the higher the chance of recurrence. The incidence and recurrence rate of genital warts in men are higher than those in women and homosexuals. The incidence and recurrence rates of those who first had sexual intercourse before the age of 19 were higher than those of others.

2. For people with low immune function, such as those with malignant tumors, lupus erythematosus, kidney transplantation, chemotherapy, and those using glucocorticoids, the risk of developing and recurring genital warts increases exponentially, and the warts are also larger.

3. Smoking and drinking are risk factors for the onset and recurrence of many sexually transmitted diseases. Because smoking and drinking can reduce the body's immune function. The survey found that people who have smoked for more than ten years have a significantly increased chance of recurrence of genital warts.

4. Marital status is also related to the onset and recurrence of this disease. The chance of recurrence increases for men who are divorced, separated, widowed, unmarried, or have an unhappy marital life due to increased high-risk sexual behavior. Improper use of condoms during sexual intercourse may also increase the incidence and recurrence of this disease.

5. Other sexually transmitted diseases such as genital herpes, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, measles, HIV, fungal infections, etc., destroy the mucosal barrier, reduce the ability to resist infection, and make the local environment of the genitals moist, which is conducive to the reproduction and growth of the virus.

Genital warts are a very painful disease for patients and cause great harm to patients. Therefore, when patients find that they have genital warts, they must go to a regular hospital for scientific treatment, maintain good care during treatment, and maintain healthy eating habits to reduce the recurrence of genital warts as much as possible.